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Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~ Gratitude and Grief : Connection and Action
An Eco-Dharma 5-Week Series Community Experience with The Work That Reconnects
Teachers: Constance Washburn and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1, 2026
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$40 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price)
$75 - ($15.00/Class)
$100 ($20.00/Class)
$125 ($25/Class)
Course description: This in person 5-week series, based in the Work That Reconnects, offers participants an inspiring, interactive group process to build meaningful connections and support each other in the healing of our world.
Together, we will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. Starting with an introduction and overview of the foundations of the Work, we will then proceed around the Spiral, moving through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New and Ancient Eyes and Going Forth. This progression begins by inviting us to reflect on what we are grateful for in our lives. As we share our love for life, our hearts open and we become aware of layers of our grief for the world. By naming what pains us and witnessing as others share, we find our courage and passion for making a difference. Through practices designed to expand our awareness, we step into our interconnection to Earth and the greater wisdom that surrounds us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth and creating a regenerative culture for all life.
We request that participants attend all 5 sessions to create a safe container for this highly interactive and deeply transformational work.
Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana
Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.
Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance
Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people. Learn more about Frieda